Glasgow loves cinema and offers a wide selection of entertainment to film goers and movie buffs alike. You can see all the latest big releases or catch an art house movie, participate in film quiz nights and enjoy special screenings.The Science of Ghosts, Glasgow Film Festival
CCA / Mon 25 (20.30) & Tue 26 Feb (15.00) Director Niall McCann and musician Adrian Crowley will attend the screening on Mon 25 February, 2019 A portrait of an artist, and an artist’s musings on life, Niall McCann’s (Lost In France, GFF17) latest film spans the divide between truth and fiction, creating an experimental documentary that […]
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Sunday, February 24, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Julia Blue, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
CCA / Sunday 24 (20.45) & Monday 25 February, 2019 (13.15) Director Roxy Toporowych will attend the screening on Sun 24 Feb. Director Roxy Toporowych’s second feature film is charming, subtle and ultimately bittersweet. Julia (Polina Snisarenko), a photojournalism student living in war-torn Ukraine, finds her path towards independence and a brighter future challenged after falling for English […]
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Joe Thomas announced as first Young Films Foundation Ambassador
CCA on Tuesday 26th February, 2019 Pioneering Scottish film & TV producer, Chris Young, will announce actor and writer Joe Thomas as the first ambassador for the Young Films Foundation at a Glasgow Film Festival Industry event hosted by the Young Films Foundation and Channel 4. Young and Thomas worked together on the iconic ‘The […]
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Friday, February 22, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Classes and Workshops, Kids and young people
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Buchanan Galleries
Buchanan Galleries / Wed 27 Feb, 2019 (Doors 20.30) Glasgow Film Festival Bill S Preston ESQ. and Ted Theodore Logan are failing. In the small town of San Dimas two teenage boys have a dream – to start their own rock band, the Wyld Stallyns. But if they fail school, Ted’s father is sending him […]
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Spank the Banker Documentary feature film by Samir Mehanovic
Spank the Banker …the story of the world’s biggest bank heist and how they got away with it! Documentary feature film Director: Samir Mehanovic Producers: Samir Mehanovic & George Kerevan With participation by Noel Edmonds Spank the Banker –the film will screen at GFT on Tuesday 19 March at 6.15 p.m. Buy tickets. BAFTA-winning film […]
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Thursday, February 21, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mid90s, Glasgow Film Festival 2019 review Pat Byrne
Mid90s is Jonah Hill’s directorial debut – a coming of age film set in the 90s in Los Angeles. Stevie (Sunny Suljic) the main character is a thirteen year old, who lives in a lone parent household with his mum (Katherine Waterston) and older brother Ian (Lucas Hedges). Ian is a violent bully and young […]
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
GFF19 Jim Galloway – A Journey In Jazz CCA
Thursday 21 February 2019 Director James Cullingham chronicles the life of Jim Galloway, the amazing Scotsman who emigrated to Canada as a young man and went on to carve out an international career as a saxophonist and jazz impresario. Jim collaborated with jazz stalwarts such as Buddy Tate and Jay McShann and was a co-founder […]
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Saturday, February 16, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
A Private War GFT
15 – 20 February, 2019 Celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin spent her professional life chasing down the human stories at the centre of some of recent history’s deadliest conflicts. Never one to retreat from the eye of the storm, she was killed by a bomb during the 2012 siege of Homs in Syria. This gripping […]
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Friday, February 15, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Tell It To The Bees
Fri 22 (20.30) & Sat 23 February, 2019 (12.45) Director Annabel Jankel, novelist Fiona Shaw, screenwriters The Ashworth Sisters, and cast members Gregor Selkirk, Emun Elliott, Kate Dickie and Lauren Lyle will attend the screening on Fri 22 Feb. The Scotland of 1952 is no place for the faint-hearted. When mill worker Lydia (Holliday Grainger) is abandoned by […]
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Grand Ole Opry, 2-4 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 1HS Thursday 21 February, 2019 (Doors 19.00) Glasgow Film Festival Three performers travel through the perils of outback Australia to find things they didn’t even know they were missing, like fabulous dresses. Join us for an evening of bingo debauchery hosted by glamorous Bingo Babes (Rujazzle and CJ […]
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The Vanishing Glasgow Film Theatre
21 and 22 February, 2019 Kristoffer Nyholm is a past master of stylish suspense having directed TV series The Killing and Taboo. Now, he turns his talent to the eerie true events known as the Flannan Isle mystery. Thomas (Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler) and Donald (Connor Swindells) are three lighthouse keepers who arrive on an uninhabited island 20 miles off the […]
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An Elephant Sitting Still Glasgow Film Theatre
18 and 19 February, 2019 In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the world in which they find themselves. Among them is schoolboy Bu, on the run after […]
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Tickets on Sale Glasgow Film Festival 2019
The fifteenth edition of Glasgow Film Festival kicks off on 20th February, 2019 and, if you haven’t already decided what to see check out these highlights: Special event screening of Fight Club and the International premiere of Niall McCann‘s The Science of Ghosts, which will be followed by a performance from Adrian Crowley. Guests welcomed from Hollywood include Matt […]
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The Hole in the Ground, Glasgow Film Festival
21 and 22 February, 2019 Part of Glasgow Film Festival Future Cult Strand These screenings will take place at Cineworld In the process of rebuilding her life and looking to put her broken past behind her, Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake) is forging ahead in a new home with her son Chris (James Quinn Markey). One night, […]
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Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Full Programme Announced Glasgow Film Festival
GFF2019 Across 12 days, the city-wide celebration of cinema will host 7 world premieres, 102 UK premieres and 49 Scottish premieres Guests including Sir Michael Palin, Carol Morley, Matt Bomer, Carlos Acosta, Alice Lowe, Simon Amstell and legendary music video director Lance Bangs will attend the 15th annual festival Six out of the ten nominees […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: Mother’s Instinct
GFT / Thu 21 (18.30) & Fri 22 Feb, 2019 (10.45) There are echoes of Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith in this luscious, devilishly entertaining Belgian thriller. Suburban neighbours Alice (Veerle Baetens) and Celine (Anne Coesens) are the very best of friends. Their inseparable sons are more like brothers than chums. When tragedy strikes, they both […]
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Cubanos: Woman and the Revolution
Sunday 3rd March, 2019 2-5pm The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, G2 3AU CUBANAS asks what six decades of socialist construction has meant for Cuban women and explores how the legacies of pioneering women revolutionaries such as Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria and Vilma Espin live on in Cuba today. In Britain, women are hit hardest […]
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Sunday, February 10, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
SQIFF Shorts on Tour presented with STUC LGBT+ Committee, CCA
Saturday 9 February 2019 1pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 SQIFF and STUC LGBT + Committee present an inclusive selection of LGBTQ + short films from around the world. This is another chance to see the Opening Night films from SQIFF 2018. Headlining the programme is VISIBLE, created by Campbell X […]
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Friday, February 8, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
An Impossible Love GFT
8 – 10 February, 2019 Based on a book by controversial French novelist Christine Angot – Claire Denis’ co-writer on Let the Sunshine In – Catherine Corsini’s film is a profound melodrama exploring dysfunctional family relationships. The film begins in the 1950s, as office worker Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls for the dashing Philippe (Niels Schneider), a Nietzsche-reading […]
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Weekend: Valentine’s Day The Seamore
Thursday, 14 February, 2019, 7 p.m. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE, UK A one night stand that becomes something more – an unconventional love story between two young men trying to make sense of their lives. Buy tickets
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Access Film Club High Fidelity, GFT
12 February, 2019 GFT, together with The National Autistic Society Scotland is delighted to provide Access Film Club: screenings and post-film discussions in a friendly and welcoming environment. GFT is the first cinema in the UK to receive the Autism Friendly Award 2017. Rob Gordon (John Cusack), is the owner of a failing a record store, and […]
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Roma at Glasgow Film Theatre
12 February, 2019 The most personal project to date from Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to […]
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Film Screening: Les Enfants de Mishwar
9 February, 2019 Two charities, Music Broth and Mishwar have joined up to raise funds to support young people in their communities by organising a film screening of a documentary on the life in Lebanese Refugee camps for young people (English). The evening will hope to raise awareness of the work being done to support […]
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Thursday, February 7, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Cinemasters: Margarethe von Trotta GFT
The first female director to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta has made some of the most trailblazing films of the past five decades. One of the most gifted – but often overlooked – directors to come from the New German Cinema movement alongside Fassbinder and Herzog, von Trotta has never shied away from topics that resonate with […]
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Green Book at Glasgow Film Theatre
1 – 14 February, 2019 When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class African-American pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then […]
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Destroyer, GFT
8 – 14 February, 2019 Nicole Kidman inhabits the character of Erin Bell, a world-weary LAPD detective, in this gripping hardboiled crime drama. As a young cop, Bell was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her […]
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Monsters and Men, Glasgow Film Theatre
1 – 7 February, 2019 Three parallel storylines interweave around a central incident – the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white cop – in this Brooklyn-set drama. A young father films the shooting on his phone and finds himself targeted by police; a black policeman struggles to deal with the fallout of […]
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Opening and Closing Galas announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2019
The 15th annual festival will open on 20 February with UK premiere of Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s. Festival will close on 3 March with UK premiere of Brian Welsh’s Beats, the film adaptation of Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley’s hit stage show about 90s rave culture, exec produced by Steven Soderbergh. Opening Gala Mid90s 20 […]
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Capernaum GFT
1 – 7 February, 2019 GFT exclusive preview week – general release 22 February Winner of the Jury Award at Cannes Film Festival 2018, this is a story of gut-wrenching emotion, desperation and ultimately, hope. Set in the slums of Beirut, we meet young Zain, pleading before a judge that he should be allowed to sue […]
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Burning, GFT
1 – 7 February, 2019 Burning is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people into his world: first, Haemi (newcomer Jong-seo Jun), a spirited woman who offers romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Steven Yeun), a wealthy and […]
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